Honey dressings were being used in some English NHS hospital settings.

This from 2008 isn't great, but it's not calling it woo: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2008/10October/Pages/Honeyandburns.as...

This from 2016 is a bit better: http://www.cochrane.org/CD005083/WOUNDS_honey-as-a-topical-t...

> There is high quality evidence that honey heals partial thickness burns around 4 to 5 days more quickly than conventional dressings. There is moderate quality evidence that honey is more effective than antiseptic followed by gauze for healing wounds infected after surgical operations.

I think "partial thickness" is called "second degree" in the US.

That's different from just pouring it on a new burn, and I definitely don't think people should do that.

The best and quickest link that I could find was this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4158441/

> Having had oil burns heal without honey

I'd say you need to have Terminator-like skin in order to (relatively) quickly heal your skin (with no scars) after pouring more than half of pan of burning oil on your arm.

That would be a very serious burn, and in that situation it's important (to avoid death or loss of limb) to get the person to the nearest emergency department, and then to the nearest burns unit.

Yeah, this seems like woo. At best I would hazard to guess that the honey provides an antibiotic effect and is perhaps a slightly acidic pH causing high cell turnover.

Honey has an antimicrobial effect that's been known for thousands of years. This isn't the article I went looking for about it, but interesting all the same:

http://www.academia.edu/2189571/Pdf_6_The_antibacterial_acti...

The antibiotic effect all by itself would be nothing to scoff at. I mentioned it as a reply to a previous comment, but I don't personally think that the human skin is made to re-generate all by itself after pouring more than half of a pan of burning oil on the arm section.